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Publishing Open Data – Do you really need an API? | Peter Krantz
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Government: Do You Really Need An API? – Sunlight Foundation Blog
Good points, well presented.
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10 Awesome Examples of Ecommerce Sites Using Responsive Web Design | Business 2 Community
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Why Facebook is blue: The science of colors in marketing – The Buffer Blog
Also fascinating
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The secrets of body language: why you should never cross your arms again – The Buffer Blog
Fascinating
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Open government reboot focuses on APIs instead of data | Ars Technica
Good comment on this article by longhairedboy:
In many ways, the new initiative is an attempt to correct the failings of the government’s first “open data” effort, Data.gov.This is stupid, actually. The Data.gov effort did not fall short because of clunky data formats, but rather because funding was drastically cut.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/da … _by_75.phpMany others have more thoughtfully described the problems with providing government data as APIs and I’ll provide links. Basically, the first step should always be providing data as downloads as easy to use text files like CSV. APIs are much harder to design and support. As a result of being underfunded in the government space they typically perform too poorly to be relied on my 3rd parties. Read more here:
http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2012/gover … ed-an-api/
http://www.peterkrantz.com/2012/publish … pi-design/
http://sgillies.net/blog/1101/does-plei … ve-an-api/Government agencies shouldn’t be spinning their wheels thinking about XML vs JSON, RESTful vs SOA. They should be concerned with providing accurate, timely, and extensive information in simple plain text formats. Once this is achieved, it _may_ make sense to start thinking about APIs for a subset of those datasets.”
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could this be used for my data streams from various QS sensors, apps and platforms?
Daily links 04/30/2013
Daily links 04/19/2013
Daily links 03/26/2013
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BBC News – Mobile location data ‘present anonymity risk’
“The idea here is that there is a natural trade-off between the resolution at which you are capturing this information and anonymity, and that this trade-off is just by virtue of resolution and the uniqueness of the pattern,”
But the authors say their purpose is to provide a mathematical link – a formula applicable to all mobility data – that quantifies the anonymity/utility trade-off, and hope that the work sparks debate about the relative merits of this “Big Data” and individual privacy. -
From Purchase to Targeted Ads: Where Your Data’s Going | DataWorks – Advertising Age
Daily links 03/11/2013
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Enliken Discover – Only half of ad targeting data is right
.. in case you didn’t know.
Daily links 03/08/2013
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Recipe: Carrot cake with Yeogurt Drizzle | Yeo Valley | Supporting British Family Farms
“CARROT CAKE WITH YEOGURT DRIZZLE
THE RECIPE
A really moist carrot cake with a lovely orange flavoured yogurt icing, delicious served slightly warm.INGREDIENTS:
3 medium carrots, washed
175g dark muscovado sugar
150ml sunflower oil
4 tbsp Yeo Valley Natural Yeogurt
3 large eggs
200g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp mixed spice
100g sultanasIcing:
100g icing sugar
1 tbsp Yeo Valley Natural Yeogurt
Grated rind ½ orange
METHOD:
Grease and line the base of a 20cm square tin with greaseproof. Preheat oven to Gas 4, 180°C.
Place the carrots, sugar, oil, yogurt and eggs into a food processor and blend until smooth (if no processor available, grate the carrots and mix well with the other ingredients)
Sieve the flour with the baking powder and mixed spice and stir in the carrot mixture along with the sultanas. Mix well and pour into the prepared tin.
Bake in preheated oven for 40 -45 mins until firm and the cake springs back when pressed in the middle. Cool, then turn out onto a wire rack.
Mix the sieved icing sugar with the yogurt and orange zest and drizzle over the cake”
Daily links 02/28/2013
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The Digital Health Ecosystem | Bionic.ly
wish he didn’t call it ‘digital health ecosystem’ but it is a useful starting point in the growing area of quantifying self..
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